Correspondent in London
The affair looks like a scandal within a scandal.
The senior civil servant who led the “Partygate” investigation, Sue Gray, was then said to have been in secret talks with the Labor opposition boss.
Many conservatives, including those close to Johnson, who had been swept away by the storm, are crying conspiracy.
These links between Sue Gray and the opposition are the subject of a diligent report after the civil servant left the administration to join Labour.
Last March, his leader Keir Starmer offered him to become his chief of staff, a key holder for the next electoral battle.
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Previously unknown to the public and renowned for her integrity, the woman in her 60s came into the limelight last year when she delivered her rather damning report on the Downing Street party scandal. during the lockdowns, which eventually brought down Johnson.
Sue Gray was then responsible for ethics…
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